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Future Defenses: Technologies to Stop the Unknown Attack


{LANG_NAVORIGIN} Malicious Code AntiVirus Software
03/23/2004



Current anti-virus software, combined with sensible filtering (such as quarantining all executable content from e-mail and Web traffic), firewalling, and religiously maintaining patches, serves as a reasonably good defense against the current classes of virus, worms, and script kiddies. This malware includes conventional file infectors, mail worms, people running attack scripts, and active worms based on old security holes. Unfortunately these techniques are not sufficient to stop a speed-optimized active worm based on a previously undiscovered security hole.

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